Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-09
THE PANHANDLE.
Base ISLANDERS Regarding the Garden
spot CT Texas Em8nsting from
Official Sources.
The Denver Road Completed into Oldham
County-O her Roads Heading for
the Great Northwest.

The Denver Road Completed into Oldham
County-o her Roads Heading for
the Great Northwest.
CLARENDON. TIN.. Sept. ,, l,~1.
To the Editor of the Gazette
As most Of the inquiries IN regsrd to
the Panhandle are from sections reached
( by THE GAZETTE, l beg leave to present
/ to your readers few facts heretofore
comparatively unknown The Psnhan-
/ die, by resson Of its former inaccessi-
biity sad the cOnse guen. ignorance re
garding it, hss been peculiarly unfortu-
nste in being sIsndeEed without opportu-
nifty for refutCtiOn. Tle United States
Bureau OF Animal Industry has, in It's eli
! CiaI Ca pGCity, declared the Panhandle to
! Oe portion Of the district infected by
the Texas fever, although no CsSe Of the
kind can be found where it hiss origin
atad north Of the Texas aad Pacific
/ line of road. The Injury this has
caused US can be readily cUmprehCuded
when il is understood that by far our
most important industry is the trslli; in
+ live cattle. United States biologists,
who never saw the Panhandle, have de
sCfibed it as g desert waste, when, in
fact, no country in the world can boast OF
so large q proportion Of tilIabIe soil.
/ This season mas been the dryesJ in five
years and yet Mr.. Geo Tyng, ireCeiyer Of
/ the FraDCklyn Land and Cattle Company,
( has 5000 bushels OF oats raised this year
upOn its lands in Carson county, and MI
j. G Murdoch OF Clarendon has gathered
three tons per acre of mellow maize from
/ his farm near town. The Rowe brothers
are now making their fourth cutting OF
alfalfa from their ranch in the eastern
/ portion OF this county, Crops in
Wheeler county are exceptionally good
and the whole country is IN 8 prOsperOJ 5
/ condition, notwithstanding the whole
sale SANDER TO which it has been suC-
. eCted.
The record in the Galtcd States Signal
Service CuiCe at Fort Elliott shows that
during the seven years OF its existence
there has been but three months in which
no rain fell, and that there was each year
an abudanCe OF rain il the spring and
summer months
From the present indications it is prob
able that the Panhandle will in the near
future have a ne. work Of railways. The
Fort Worth and Denver is completed
into Oldham county, 10 within few
miles CT TascOsa, and viii by spring DC
connected with Denver CIV. The Kansas
Southern has been completed TO G, adam
City, and by November | viii be com
pleted to PanhsndIe, from whence tap
twenty miles long viii DE built to the
Fort Worth and Denver. The Chicago
and Rock Island and the St. Louis snd
San Francisco have signihed their
intention to build Immediately into
the Panhandle, the officials OF the
latter intimatiIg that /. Will be pushed 4
from Sepuipa, l. T., this fall, snd the
San Antonio and Arkansas Pass Railway
/ Company in their recent prospectus pro
ject their line noTthwsrd from Kerrvil,e,
through the Panhandle, immediately west
Of the Indisn Territory.
The population has increased 100 per
cent. in the last six months, and five
towns have been added to the three of
three months ago. DonIey, Wheeler,
/ Oldham, Childress, LipscOmO, Potter and
/ Hemphill are organized counties, the
latter four having organized in the last
ninety days. The town Of Clarendon has
risen from 'innoCuousJd esuetude" to q
/ place of commercial importance and
/ houses are being built as fast as lumber
! can be procured. In Illustration Of the
boom l mention the fact that the
| foundations of eight houses were
/ laid to-day. Eighty-fve thousand dol
! lars worth Of lots haye been sold st Can
adian City, and in several towns in tie
/ Panhandle land that was worth only So
/ per acre three months ago, is selling with
astonishing Tapidity st $40 per front foot.
In some of the counties where there
were but sCant dozen sections Of public
school land taken up under the old law,
there remain only as many not located by
/ settlers awaiting the classification under
/ the new law. The high rate Of wages
and the demand for labor, offer induce
ments to the poor man eXCelled by few
other countries, but no one should come
here with the intention Of farming for g
! support without sufficient money to fence
! MS land and to support him for
year. Fortunately for us, the ruin
! Gus system OF mOrtgsgiug land and crops
10 Che merchant for future supplies is IN
known and not likely to be adopted in the
near future, thus compelling the farmer
TO trust to his own resources, and to
operate his business on his own and not
borrowed capital, and real estate is too
cheap now TO institute s renting system.
/ Dul L lew years ego TIE CIty CI Oh
Worth itself dIa not ex;st, and the places
of business, the busy streets, the sur
rounding gardens and adjacent farms
were pronounced an uainhaoitaOle VIII
derness.
In these few years the tide of popuIa-
ton has eddied into populous city,
ard, sweeping westward, has built
up score Of smaller towns to
larger size than any Of Fort Worth S
most saDguine christeners ever dared al
first to hope for it, and daily, along her
tributary railways, towns spring up like
palaces at the rubbing of Alladdln's lamp.
Is it not, then, safe to predict that ten
years hence Fort Worth will have trebled
her population and that somewhere in
the Panhandle city will atise as large as
the Fort Worth of to-day
szz-ORCENETH&. FISHER.
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Rprgai&a Pellsss,s the original
little Liver PAf ,2t Of all dgugglsts.